Director

Director of the Principal Center for Global Citizenship: David Skidmore

David Skidmore is a Professor of Political Science at Drake University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and taught at Hamilton College and the University of Notre Dame before arriving at Drake in 1989. During the 1996-97 academic year, he taught at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. In 2010-11, he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. His other travels have taken him to Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, England, Germany, Turkey, Egypt, Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Brazil. Skidmore serves as Director of the Principal Center for Global Citizenship and the Nelson Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, both at Drake University. He is past Director of the Drake Curriculum and First Year Seminar programs. His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of international political economy, American foreign policy and international relations theory. Skidmore is author, co-author or editor of six books including, most recently, a monograph titled The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy (Routledge, 2011), and has published numerous articles or chapters in various academic journals and books. His current work includes a co-authored textbook titled International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and Wealth in a Globalizing World (forthcoming with Routledge). He also blogs on international affairs.